I don't know where to start, and if I get started I don't know where to stop. It seems like all my days and nights have run together since the beginning of November. We have been from California to North Carolina and driven around 9,000 miles! We have been shocked by the death of our brother Royce Elms, then early this morning we received another call that the daughter of Elroy and LaJoyce Martin (writer/speaker) was killed in an auto accident. Angela was 41 years old. For those who know our family you know that Elroy Martin is a first cousin to my husband. We are so sad for Elroy and LaJoyce! Please pray for the "peace of God" to come to them during this terrible time.
It seems like lately I have been using my blog for updates on those who have been called out of this life. Heaven is definitely going to be a wonderful place! When we all gather around the throne we're going to have a wonderful time. Our hearts grieve, and our eyes fill with tears, but we have a HOPE that is far beyond this life. I want to be ready when He calls me home or when the trump of God sounds!
Will you meet me there?
Showing posts with label Our Hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Hope. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Behold He Comes
You're in your car driving home and your thoughts wander to "what you want to do when you arrive home", when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you. A trumpet? A choir? A choir of trumpets? You don't know, but you want to know...
So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you see you aren't the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car doors are open and people are staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store.
The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parent's are searching the clouds. And what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.
As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None!
From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen, riding on the flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.
North…South….East….West….
Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the trumpets you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, Holy, Holy! The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship.
Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is....JESUS!
Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King. He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:
"I am the Alpha and the Omega!"
The angels bow their heads...the elders remove their crowns...and before you is a Figure so consuming that you know...instantly you know: Nothing else matters. Forget stock markets and school reports, sales meetings and football games. Nothing is newsworthy. All that mattered...matters no more....
For Christ has come!
I received this email from a friend today. I know this is someone's way of trying to explain how His return will be. No one really knows how it will actually be when Jesus appears in the sky, but I got excited just thinking about when He comes...and HE WILL COME! This is OUR HOPE!
Are YOU ready?
The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parent's are searching the clouds. And what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.
As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None!
From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen, riding on the flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.
North…South….East….West….
Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the trumpets you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, Holy, Holy! The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship.
Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is....JESUS!
Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King. He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:
"I am the Alpha and the Omega!"
The angels bow their heads...the elders remove their crowns...and before you is a Figure so consuming that you know...instantly you know: Nothing else matters. Forget stock markets and school reports, sales meetings and football games. Nothing is newsworthy. All that mattered...matters no more....
For Christ has come!
I received this email from a friend today. I know this is someone's way of trying to explain how His return will be. No one really knows how it will actually be when Jesus appears in the sky, but I got excited just thinking about when He comes...and HE WILL COME! This is OUR HOPE!
Are YOU ready?
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